NITI Aayog
7 inspirational women from Harayana win NITI Aayog’s Fifth Edition of Women Transforming India Awards
75 Women honoured in the 75th year of India’s Independence
Women have consistently been playing a key role in transforming India into a ‘Sashakt Aur Samarth Bharat’. In recognition of the remarkable achievements of these women across diverse sectors NITI Aayog has instituted Women Transforming India Awards.
This year, as part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav to celebrate 75 years of India’s independence, the WTI Awards were conferred on 75 women achievers. Of these 75 Awardees 7 women from the state of Harayana were honoured. Click here to know more about the other awardees.
- Supriya Paul, Gurugram, Josh Talks
Supriya Paul is the CEO & Co-Founder of Josh Talks, India’s largest regional content and upskilling platform. It is creating an ecosystem to inspire, inform, upskill and create employment opportunities for the youth in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities in India. Available in 10 languages on YouTube, the content garners more than 70 Million views on a monthly basis. Their unique android application which has over 2 million downloads, Josh Skills helps youth to overcome their hesitation of conversing in English. They continue to develop tools that effectively nurture each individual’s potential.
Josh Talks is unlocking human potential by building a physical and digital infrastructure designed for youth.
- Aditi Bhutia Madan, Faridabad, BluePine Foods Pvt. Ltd.
BluePine Foods started with a mission of providing society with high quality authentic cuisines based on traditional recipes handed down from families. Aditi Bhutia Madan, Founder and Director, promotes sustainability by converting wide range of agro produce into momos and dumplings. They believe in making their products with utmost love and using no preservatives. Their vision is to enable and empower individuals in transforming societies by serving them convenient food, and establishing a feeling of reliability and simplicity. Blue Pine Foods was also featured in the latest reality show - Shark Tank India.
By Providing healthy authentic everyday meals, BluePines Foods envisions to be a part of every household in India.
- Chahat Vasal, Gurugram, NerdNerdy Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Chahat Vasal co-founded NerdNerdy Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a research driven technology and product startup in the field of education and special needs. It’s first of its kind, robust end-to-end technology solution which address the various problems faced by professionals in the special needs sector. This advanced technology is being used to conduct mass screening in schools to help identify children who may have Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
They have developed 300+ indigenous, hands-on intervention tools that assist professionals in conducting therapy. It has also set up special resource rooms in 18 Army Public Schools and was a finalist in the National StartUp India Awards 2021.
NerdyNerd aims to become an intelligent knowledge and solution provider for each stakeholder in field of special needs education.
- Dr. Girija K Bharat, Gurugram, Mu Gamma Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
Founded by Dr. Girija K Bharat, Mu Gamma Consultants Pvt. Ltd. is working towards promoting an environmentally conscious society. This is achieved by improving the quality of life of communities through environment friendly solutions, drawing knowledge from global best practices and applying this to the local context. They conduct research on water and sanitation , waste management, environmental management, water resource management. This mission is supported by the Norwegian Institute for Water Research .
Mu Gamma Consultants is improving the quality of life of communities by offering contextualised environment friendly solutions, drawing knowledge from global best practices.
- Anju Srivastava, Gurugram, Wingreens Farms Pvt. Ltd.
Anju has set up a unique socially inclusive business model in the food and beverage sector. The “WIN” of Wingreens comes from the Women’s Initiative Network which skills and empowers underprivileged women to make world class products. Wingreens also has a farming model where it works with marginal farmers to give them technical knowhow and predictable income. Their products are sold in over 250 cities in India and the range spans dips, sauces, mayonnaise, baked chips, wide range of organic products, bakery premixes and herbs and seasonings.
Wingreens is based on a socially inclusive business model in which the less privileged sections of society become the pillars of the organization.
- Neetu Yadav, Gurugram, Animall Technologies Ltd.
Co-founder of Animall Technologies Ltd., Neetu Yadav, ensures that her platform primarily focuses on building a peer-to-peer cattle trading platform. Their journey has been very encouraging and promising - they have reached more than 8 million dairy farmers within a short span of 2 years. In the next 5 years, Animall aims to create digital solutions in financing, insurance, healthcare and all dairy farming needs of India’s dairy farmers.
Animall’s mission is to build efficiencies in the dairy ecosystem in India using technology, data science, and design.
- Suchi Mukherjee, Gurugram, LimeRoad
Suchi Mukherjee has built a unique platform, LimeRoad with best in class fundamentals. They aim to create access to digital fashion for everyone. So far, LimeRoad has served over 16 million customers. This is a team of survivors who have focused on driving excellence; it is the only team from the 2010-2014 cohort of fashion commerce companies, who cumulatively raised over 10,000 crores.
LimeRoad wants to digitize fashion worth Rs. 400,000 crores, enabling next 100 million users
through creation of an unparalleled ecosystem.